"India" Newsletter Archive

Sat, Sep 14 2019

Andrew Stawicki via Getty Images The government today removed the names of 312 persons belonging to Sikh community who left India during militancy years in Punjab and sought asylum in other countries. They were put on the ‘adverse list'…

BOSTON (AP) — Training surgeons is as easy as training dolphins or dogs. At least according to a study that Thursday earned a 2019 Ig Nobel, the annual Nobel Prize spoof that rewards weird, odd and sometimes head-scratching scientific…

Congress MP and former union minister Shashi Tharoor's latest book ‘The Hindu Way' attempts to make liberal Hinduism a household phenomenon. An avowed and practising Hindu, Tharoor has earlier written ‘Why I Am A Hindu?' explaining…

CHANDIGARH/BENGALURU — Over 11,000 new electric rickshaws adding to the 1.5 million such vehicles already in operation, all of which adds to an environmental nightmare with no clear solution: hundreds of thousands of discarded lead acid…

A ban on flavored e-cigarettes would not only severely dent sales of Juul Labs' popular vaping products, but also have a chilling effect on the little regulated $2.6 billion industry of roughly 20,000 vape and smoke shops that sprung up across the…